Richard Carbonaro

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Dr. Carbonaro’s affiliation with Manhattan College began as an undergraduate and he completed both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the College. After completing his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University in 2004, he became an assistant professor at Manhattan. Currently he is a professor of chemical engineering at Manhattan College.

His current research interests include: chemical fate and transport in natural and engineered systems, remediation of soils and sediments, in situ groundwater remediation and geochemical redox cycling of metals.  At Manhattan College, he has managed several externally-funded research projects related to chromium redox transformations, water quality monitoring of urban pollutants, modeling of metals in the environment for risk assessment, and partitioning of metals onto organic carbon.

Education

  • B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Manhattan College
  • M.E. in Environmental Engineering from Manhattan College
  • Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University

Courses Taught

  • CHML 321      Chemical Reactor Design
  • ENVL 410      Hazardous Waste Design
  • ENGS 115      Introduction to Engineering
  • ENGS 116      Introduction to Engineering Computation
  • ENGS 204      Environmental Engineering Principles I
  • ENVG 535      Surface Water Quality Laboratory
  • ENVG 706      Aquatic and Soil Chemistry
  • ENVG 731      Special Topics
  • ENVG 732      Thesis
  • ENVG 736      Advanced Unit Operations
  • ENVG 739      Experimental Analysis in Environmental Engineering
  • ENVL 535      Surface Water Quality Laboratory
  • CEEN 308      Reliability Analysis in Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • ENGD 301      The Company

 

  • Research
    • Specializations:
    • Fate and transport of chemicals in natural and engineered systems
    • Remediation of hexavalent chromium and arsenic
    • Numerical modeling of chemical processes
    • Geochemical redox cycling of metals
  • Publications and Scholarly Activities

    Publications in peer-reviewed journals: 

    • Cárdenas-Hernández, P.; Hickey, K.P..; Di Toro, D.M.; Allen, H.A.; Carbonaro, R.F.; Chiu, P. “Linear Free Energy Relationship for Predicting the Rate Constants of Munition Compound Reduction by the Fe(II)-Hematite and Fe(II) Goethite Redox Couples.” Environmental Science & Technology. 2023, 57 (36), 13646-13657.
    • Hickey, K.P.; Cárdenas-Hernández, P.; Di Toro, D.M.; Allen, H.A.; Carbonaro, R.F.; Chiu, P. “Thermodynamic Two-Site Surface Reaction Model for Predicting Munition Constituent Reduction Kinetics with Iron (Oxyhydr)oxides.” Environmental Science & Technology.  2023, 57, 33, 12411–12420
    • Murillo-Gelvez, J.; Hickey, K.P; Di Toro, D.M.; Allen, H.E.; Carbonaro, R.F.; Chiu, P.C. “Electron Transfer Energy and Hydrogen Atom Transfer Energy-based LFERs for Predicting the Rate Constants of Munitions Constituent Reduction by Hydroquinones”. Environmental Science & Technology. 2023, 57, 13, 5284–5295
    • Platt, K.L.; Di Toro, D.M.; Carbonaro, R.F.; Bugher, N.A.; Parkerton, T.F.; Eastcott, L.J.; Imhoff, P.T. “Ferrocyanide Enhanced Evaporative Flux to Remediate Soils Contaminated With Produced Water Brine.” Journal of Hazardous Materials. 2023, 442, 130028.
    • Hickey, K.P.; Murillo-Gelvez, J.; Di Toro, D.M.; Allen, H.E.; Carbonaro, R.F.; Chiu, P.C. “Modeling the Reduction Kinetics of Munition Compounds by Humic Acids.” Environmental Science & Technology. 2022, 56, 8, 4926-4935.
    • Murillo Gelvez, J.; Di Toro, D.M.; Allen, H.A.; Carbonaro, R.F.; Chiu, P. “Reductive Transformation of 3-Nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (NTO) by Leonardite Humic Acid and AQDS.” Environmental Science & Technology. 2021, 55, 19, 12973–12983
    • Cárdenas-Hernández, P.; Anderson, K.; Murillo Gelvez, J.; Di Toro, D.M.; Allen, H.A.; Carbonaro, R.F.; Chiu, P. “Reduction of 3-nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (NTO) by the hematite aqueous Fe(II) redox couple.”Environmental Science & Technology 2020, 54, 12191-12201.
    • Hickey, K.P.; Di Toro, D.M.; Allen, H.E., Carbonaro, R.F; Chiu, P.C. “A Unified Linear Free Energy Relationship for Abiotic Reduction Rate of Nitroaromatics and Hydroquinones using Quantum Chemically Estimated Energies.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 2020, 39(12), 2389-2395.
    • Di Toro, D.M.; Hickey, K.P.; Allen, H.E., Carbonaro, R.F; Chiu, P.C. “